ANNOUNCEMENTS

Complete a Quick Survey for Graduate Admission and Communications!Take a moment to complete this survey, which will involve you searching your memory banks for your first reaction to MICA's Graduate Publication. If you ever did. Everyone that completes the survey will be eligible to stop by the Office of Graduate Admission for a copy of a MICA publication. Director of Graduate Admission Christopher Harring will guess your favorite 1990s-era American League baseball player and autograph the piece in their name. Or do it for the satisfaction of contributing to the future of MICA's graduate publications! Thank you! COMPLETE SURVEY HERE

Power and Equity Forum: What Type of Activist Are You?Wednesday, 2.10.16, 7:00 - 8:30 PMABox, Leake HallJoin us for What Type of Activist Are You. This event is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to discover their activist style, identify local opportunities and resources, and hear from Baltimore activists who have advocated for social change. Activists include Shawn Burnett (BME), Gianna Rodriguez (Baltimore Youth Arts), Jacqueline Robarge (Power Inside), Ashton Page (Roberta's House), Merrick Moses (Black Trans Advocacy), and Nayeli Garcia Mowbray (Waverly Improvement Association). See the Facebook event here.This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and the Office of Community Engagement.

North Avenue Knowledge Exchange Snow Date: February 6!Saturday, 2.6.16, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PMwww.nakexchange.orgClick here to register and see full workshop schedule. Seats available on first come, first serve basis! Plan to arrive first at Lazarus Center for registration before you being your workshops.**NAKE Volunteers Needed!!!If interested please email nakexchange@gmail.com

Hoffberger Sponsors Drawing Marathon!10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (drop by anytime)Where: Post-Bacc Seminar Room, L 006, Lazarus Center, Ground FloorHoffberger MFA students are excited to announce that we will be hosting a drawing marathon as part of the Station North Knowledge Exchange! Please join us for a day of "drawing" (you define)! This time, we are working less with charcoal, and more with ink, white acrylic, markers, colored markers, etc. - i.e. less dusty materials. All of these materials will be provided, but we would also love for you to come with your own materials and your own mode of engaging with the idea of drawing (i.e., sculptural, installation-based, etc.). We want this "drawing installation/marathon" to be much crazier than the last! Hope you'll join us -- but also consider attending some of these other events too!

Fine Art Reviews: Accepting Applications Now For Graduating StudentsApplication Deadline: Friday, Feb. 12th by 12:00 PMOur third annual Fine Art Reviews will bring 25 representatives from the art world to MICA to discuss student work in one-on-one conversations. This event will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share your work with professionals and to create contacts that will help jump-start your career after graduation. The Fine Art Reviews will be held on Friday, March 25, 2016.All graduating students from all programs are eligible to participate. Please be advised that this event is not a replacement for the Internship + Career Fair on March 4th. If you wish to find internships and jobs, please attend the Fair; if you wish to create contacts and get feedback on your presentation and work, please come to the Fine Art Reviews! Visit micafineartreviews.weebly.com for further details and to apply!

Research Remix and Tim Phelps: Nature MandalasSaturday, 2.13.16, 4:00 - 7:00 PMMatin Art Center, Jones 101, JHU Homewood campusAt the West side of Charles and 33rd St.Join JHMI faculty Tim Phelps for a short talk about his mandala artwork and his new two-volume book series: “Nature Mandalas: Life Circles of Biodiversity and Conservancy.” Then participate in a hands-on workshop and make your own mandala. Participants may bring their own materials to collage. Turn old textbooks, assignments, or papers into original artwork! Free and open to the public. Materials also provided. See press release for more information or visit the Facebook event page.

Career Development: Pop-Up & Pitch Day RegistrationWhen: Register by 5:00 PM on Friday, 2.5.16Graduate students, or recent 2015 grads, do you think you have what it takes to launch a new idea or successful business concept? Participate in the Pop Up and Pitch Day and show us what you've got! The Pop UP & PITCH Day is Phase 1 of the two part UP/Start MICA Entrepreneurship competition. Pop-Up & Pitch Day will be held on Friday, February 19th. Registration is now open and the application deadline is Friday, February 5th by 5 pm. Register HERE.

Grad Lab: Sound for VideoWhen: Thursday, 2.11.16, 7:30 - 10:30 PMWhere: Grad Lab, L504, Lazarus CenterInstructor: Patrick HuntThis workshop will introduce students to the wide variety of microphones, accessories and recording devices available for field recording through the Grad Lab Checkout. Additionally, this workshop will cover some basic recording techniques, concepts and benchmarks to use when recording sound for video.

VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

Loaded in art-craft hierarchies, feminist herstories, and gender binaries, the history of fiber art and the artists and content in Queer Threads particularly intersect status, access, gender, and race. Featured artist Aaron McIntosh and MICA Fiber faculty will first share a brief history of the Fiber Art movement’s repudiation by the art world and its fight for legitimacy, before being joined by other Baltimore artist-activists concerned with racial equality, feminism and queer rights for an open discussion on the common ties—and loose threads—between making art and making change.

Just Press Print exhibition curator Paul Laidler, Ph.D., hosts a public lecture. The collaborative print studio in the digital age.The collaborative print studio has had profound impact upon the production and realisation of some of the most innovative prints within the discipline of fine art printmaking. Historically an artist with little understanding of the print process or access to print facilities could seek the technical knowledge and craft sensibilities from a master printer. In some instances these unique collaborative pursuits redefined production methods and push the boundaries of what was previously thought possible. Artists such as Pablo Picasso and David Hockney utilised this collaborative endeavour, enabling them to create artworks that may not have otherwise existed. These historical precedents have been established through mechanical modes of production and have contributed to defining the roles, expectations, functioning, production, publication, output and artisanship of the collaborative print studio.

New Mexico-based artist Harmony Hammond will speak on queer abstraction and content and materiality in abstract painting, framed by her 1971 piece, Girdle, featured in the Queer Threads exhibition. A pioneer of the feminist art movement, Hammond’s career spans four decades as an artist, art writer, and independent curator. See the Facebook Event here.

OPPORTUNITIES/OTHER NEWS

Call for Metal Rocking Love SeatMy name is Tommy Rice and I am looking to find a past or present MICA student design and build a metal rocking love seat. I'm not exactly sure what I want it to look like and would like to leave most of that up to the talent of the artist. I'm happy to discuss prices and a design in person, but would like to have this project completed by June. If interested contact the MICA Grad Office, graduatestudies@mica.edu.

Blue Ridge Labs Summer FellowshipDeadline: 4.3.16Our 12-week fellowship is designed to help top talent attack big problems in new ways by launching products for low-income communities that are traditionally overlooked by technology. By taking a customer-centric approach and pushing our teams to iterate quickly and cheaply, we aim to build products that really make a difference. More information HERE!The University of the Arts: Faculty Position OpeningsThe University of the Arts, located in Philadelphia PA, has two full-time (multi-year contract) faculty openings in Graphic Design and Game Art/Animation. The position descriptions are attached and can also be found at the University of the Arts website.Toyota + Net Impact Next Generation Mobility Challenge at JHUEvent Date: Saturday, 2.20.16Students across the U.S. compete to build skills and leverage their creativity to solve transportation's social and environmental challenges. See the website for more information.

Exhibition Opportunity: Next, A Juried Exhibition for Emerging Student ArtistsDeadline: Saturday, 2.20.16The Rehoboth Art League (RAL), in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware presents this competitive juried group exhibition as we team up with art students from various colleges, universities and design schools in both Maryland and Delaware. This year’s participating schools are: Salisbury University, The Maryland Institute College of Art and the Delaware College of Art and Design. For the past two years this exhibition has been very well-received and drawn large crowds. It has also resulted in art sales! See press release for full information.

Gaining/Losing Control: The Artist and the Book FormatTuesday, 2.2.16, 5:00 PMA lecture by Stephen Bury, Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library and a specialist on early 20th-century artists' bo​oks. Tuesday Feb. 2, 5:00, Mason Hall (Johns Hopkins Homewood campus*) Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.